writing

Rose Wild writes a marvelous column in The Times each Saturday. It’s a miscellany of things that readers have objected to over the week, and always brings out the kind of Times reader that so characterises the newspaper. Today was no exception. Continuing a theme started in previous weeks, the validity of expressions like “least […]

Two of the apps I use most for writing are Bear and Ulysses. They are beautifully designed and built applications, and offer lots of features that I find very useful. In general terms I use Bear for holding notes on areas that I am interested in and, in some cases, researching. Recently I had occasion […]

One of the things I plan to do when I retire stop working full time for my current employer and move on to do new things is to write a novel1. As I think about it from time to time, it has occurred to me that I will need to do some work to ensure that […]